HeyJaredTrustees and Presidents: A Podcast for University Leaders On College Athletics
Hosted by Karen Weaver, EdD, she interviews key leaders, stakeholders and those impacting the business of college sports and higher education.
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Kim Schatzel: Trustees, Private Equity and the Deals You're Not Allowed to See (opens the original)
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Who's really minding the money in college sports? Boards are realizing they have an important perspective. About 85–90% of Division I athletic departments can't pay for themselves. Private equity firms are stepping in, and some want deals that the lenders don’t want the trustees to see. Karen Weaver talks with Dr. Kim Schatzel, former president of Louisville and Towson and a former CEO. They cover the growing gap between the richest schools and everyone else, the fight over Arkansas's athletics
From East Mississippi CC to the NCAA: Brittany Wagner on Athletic Academic Advising After Last Chance U (opens the original)
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Brittany Wagner, the academic advisor whose work at East Mississippi Community College became the soul of Netflix's Last Chance U , joins Karen Weaver to go beyond the cameras. Wagner reflects on unexpected fame, the life-skills coaching that shaped hundreds of athletes, and why today's transfer portal era has quietly erased academic advising from the recruiting conversation. Currently an adjunct professor at the University of Montevello in Alabama, she makes a compelling case that degree progre
What Does a General Manager Actually Do in College Sports? (opens the original)
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For more info about the certificate program: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/events/information-session-new-athletics-enterprise-certificate-program "General manager" used to mean one thing. On a college campus in 2026, it means at least two, and the difference matters more than most administrators realize. Karen Weaver is joined by Kristi Dosh, Forbes sports business contributor, founder of Business of College Sports, and creator of the first job board for NIL roles, and Scott Woodruff, General Manag
Chris Bevilacqua Says Colleges Have Gone Silent on Congress — and Are Sitting on Untapped Media Value (opens the original)
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Universities created the conferences. Conferences exist to serve universities, not to control them. That's the argument Chris Bevilacqua made in a June Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, and where this conversation begins. As Congress weighs the Protect College Sports Act, he says individual institutions have gone quiet, leaving conference offices to speak for them on decisions that will shape the next hundred years. Chris then talks about the opportunities. Drawing on four decades in sports media — i
WSU's Betsy Cantwell: Stop Reacting to College Athletics. Start Designing It (opens the original)
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Most university presidents are reacting to the upheaval in college athletics. Dr. Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell is running scenarios on it — a habit she picked up long before higher ed. Before she became Washington State University's 12th president (and its first woman in the role) in April 2025, Cantwell built her career in national security, where scenario-based planning is standard practice: you can't know what's coming, so you prepare the country for many versions of it. She's an engineer and a
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